For the Love of Dog...
I'm happy to report that my work was just featured in a Center Stage Chicago article by Beatrice Smigasiewicz on dog pampering in the windy city...click here for the full article. Thanks Beatrice!
Black Poodle Art Print Giveaway!
To enter, leave me a comment on one (or both) of these two subjects...
- Share a link to your favorite art website and offer a brief explanation of why you picked it and what about it works so well.
- Visit AnnesArt.comand point out some ideas for possible improvement in the areas ofcontent, design or navigation...and any other insights you may have.
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. For the next several weeks I'll be offering a series of Pre-Holiday Giveaways in return for your much needed feedback on my website. What's in it for you? A chance to win some art, just for taking a few minutes to offer your feedback and ideas on how to make AnnesArt.com a place you would like to visit more often. What's in it for me? I get to read all your fun replies and implement some of your suggestions. Just to make things perfectly fair, I'll be using Random.org to select the winners.
Entry comments must be made by midnight on November 12th. A winner will be announced on November 13th along with some of the best ideas presented, you can then take these into consideration for your own website.
Red + White + Blue
No Passing, RWB: My only patriotically hued painting.
Embrace YOUR FREEDOM = Exercise your right to VOTE today!
Inspiring color and light...
The color of the light coming through the turned leaves is so beautiful...I had to take my camera on the walk with Alice today, it's breathtaking under those golden trees.
It was in the 70's today so I'm riding my bike to Lill Street for clay class tonight. Upon seeing my clay trucks, my friend Kate Strong suggested I make a semi that is a butter dish, I just may do that. I made a creamer to go with my sugar last week...
My Pumpkin with her pumpkin
Happy Halloween! I'm glad to report that Izzy's biopsy came back negative. We added more drugs to help with the arthritis and she seems so much more comfortable. Thanks to Dr. Gaspar, she is a very sensitive vet who also does acupuncture on dogs and cats. We see her at Roscoe Village Animal Hospital where Izzy also sees Dr. Rovner, he is on the board of Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation and was treating all the fosters when we were first got Alice as a pup...we were very impressed with his attentiveness and knowledge and immediately switched Izzy and Oliver to his office. Of course Alice is the only one who likes going there...! She's the only pet I've ever had that likes to go to the vet, but she is happy anywhere she can get attention.
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and Alice too (on the left)...like the upside down head?
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Open Studio Preview...a day late!
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The Open Studio Sale was a great success and lots of fun. I think I'm going to take advantage of all my hard work setting it up and have a few Open Studio days in November as well. My next show out of the studio is the One of a Kind Show & Sale December 4-7. I will dismantle a few things so I can continue to work but for the most part things can remain set-up, and it's so nice to work in a tidy environment!
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Setting up shop...
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Love these in my baby blue stairwell..(thanks Kate, I miss you!)...Just hung work on every possible surface for my
on Sunday. I'm exhausted but I do love hanging - it's like putting a puzzle together. Rich is going to work on some indirect lighting for me tomorrow, the flourescent lights create a lot of glare on my varnished pieces. Still need to do some cleaning, pricing etc...lots of sale tags! I found this painting stashed away, circa 1999. I used to try to stretch my own canvas but was never very good at it, this piece ended up a trapezoid and never sold. Maybe I'll offer it as a door prize!
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I'll share more photos of my gussied up studio once we finish up tomorrow as well as a blog give away...wow, how weird are her pupils? Maybe that's why it never sold - Sweet dreams!
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